GitHub and sanctions

GitHub and sanctions

Using GitHub provides you with a degree of protection, AIUI. You're safe if you genuinely believed that you weren't breaching sanctions - and you could argue that you believed that GitHub would be applying sanctions, therefore you assumed that you were not breaching sanctions by using GitHub.

Now, once the authorities have notified you, you'd have to stop working with sanctioned entities - but as a practical matter, the authorities get much more bang for their buck if they get the sanctioned entities blocked from all of GitHub than if they simply get your project to stop interacting with them.